I had a similar situation at our church-- and successfully used a cardboard antenna booster I made from "freeantennas.com". Seems silly, but it worked. NOTE: Requires you have the workstation/laptop antenna *in* the booster receiver. In my case, the desktop had a wireless card with a moveable external antenna. I do not know if you have that luxury or not-- if you can attach an external antenna, it's worth a shot....
--kcb -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Kern Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:35 AM To: SAGE mailing list; LOPSA - New Jersey Chapter; LOPSA Discuss List Subject: [lopsa-discuss] WIFI Boosting Options (sorry if this the double posts, used the wrong address last time) My current problem is thus: I have a user in a location that has a wifi hotspot, but the signal quality is low. I have no control over the infrastructure or the AP, only the user's laptop, but not the position of the laptop. The laptop has a mini-PCIe and a CardExpress slot, currently running Windows XP. The current Signal is -71 dBm and the Noise is -73 dBm, which means basically "one bar" on the little tray icon. What are my options as far as getting a better signal? I am open to all suggestions. --Joseph Kern _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
